Winning the hearts and minds

Wouldn’t it be interesting if Hizbollah rebuilt Beirut homes faster than New Orleans' homes are being rebuilt? And they started almost a year later.

The party is giving in out $12,000 (a fortune for Lebanese) to everyone who lost their homes for new homes and furniture. Hearts and minds are won. All you have to do is look at the faces of the people getting the money. The smiles throw flowers.l

Their response is certainly better and faster than FEMA’s in New Orleans. As for a comparison to Baghdad, well after billions spent people are still without electricity on a regular basis.

Hizbollah may be considered terrorists and when they get the money is open to debate after debate, but they also have an efficiency in doing something very simple that we seem to have lost the ability to do – helping the people who need it most when they need it.